The Marketing degree offers a path to exciting careers in our ever expanding marketplace with attention to ethically positioning goods and services for domestic and international markets. It explores marketing as a sustainable means of conceiving, pricing, distributing, acquiring and consuming goods...
The minor in Mathematics is available for those students who want their formal college records to emphasize a serious amount of upper-division work in mathematics. The mathematics minor requires a minimum of six courses and 24 credits. A minimum of 16 credits must be taken outside the student’s...
The study of mathematics develops one’s ability to express one’s thoughts clearly and precisely, to reason logically, and to analyze and solve problems algorithmically. The analysis and design of efficient algorithms —that is, sets of rules used for computation — is fundamental to problem solving in...
The media play a role in every aspect of life. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and even our personal identities are formed in media consumption and production. Media analysis is a critical tool in understanding and functioning in contemporary society. “Media literacy” has become a basic...
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Admission to the MS in Mental Health Counseling program is competitive. Applications for this program are accepted only for fall semester entry. To ensure consideration for the program students must apply before March 1. SUNY Old Westbury’s Master of Science degree program in Mental Health...
The Multicultural U.S./British Literature minor includes texts from the U.S. and U.K. by writers of different ethnicities, genders, sexualities, classes, and ability/disability status. It focuses on the complexity of two countries in which people of many different cultures cohabit. It provides...
Neuroscience is the study of the structure and function of the nervous system. Neuropsychology, which is a sub-field of neuroscience, is the study of the brain and its relationship to affect, behavior, and cognition. Neuropsychology is one of the most rapidly growing fields of study, and with a...
This minor enables students to undertake a coherent program of study in Philosophy and Religion as a supplement to their major field of study at SUNY Old Westbury. All students must take one introductory course in an aspect of Philosophy and one in Religion, and then choose three additional courses...
The Philosophy and Religion degree gives students grounding in the traditional issues, content, and methods of these disciplines while emphasizing a broad global perspective. At the introductory level students take courses in disciplinary foundations and methods, as well as general surveys in the...
Physics is the most fundamental of the sciences, and undergraduate training in physics provides a solid grounding in quantitative problem solving, analytical reasoning, and mathematical modeling. Fundamental knowledge of physics is relevant to a wide variety of majors and careers. A minor in physics...
The Physics B.S. program prepares students for a wide variety of careers and professions by providing a universal skill set in quantitative problem solving, analytical reasoning, and mathematical modeling. Students hone these skills by investigating the fundamental laws of nature and exploring deep...
The Politics, Economics and Law curriculum has various objectives: to introduce students to the disciplines of political science, political economy and economics and to examine how these different areas intersect to shape U.S. and international law, institutions, and policies. Such a course of study...
Many students graduating from SUNY Old Westbury aspire to have careers in the Health Professions. They want to become physicians, dentists, podiatrists, optometrists, veterinarians, physician assistants, physical therapists, nurses or any of the many other members of the health care team. The career...
Pre-Law Committee: Laura Anker (American Studies), Maureen Feder-Marcus (History and Philosophy), Carolyn Cocca (Politics, Economics and Law). Law schools maintain that there is no particular undergraduate major that will best prepare students for admission to the study of the law. In accepting...
The Professional Skills for the Workplace Microcredential conveys a basic knowledge of how economic enterprises manage their internal operations and market the goods or services they offer. It is designed to help students preparing to enter the workforce and workers needing to upgrade their skills...
Professionals and professionalism have come to be the hallmarks of the modern middle class. The BPS in Professional Studies prepares students to operate in this milieu through a set of skills-based classes that cultivate the knowledge and abilities needed to succeed in the white-collar world...
Basic psychological knowledge is essential for an understanding of modern culture. Discourse in the arts, media and politics is infused with assumptions about the psyche. Educational debates hinge on differing theories of learning and cognition. Medicine and science are increasingly aware of the...
Completion of requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology ensures that students have been given an extensive background in research methods and have been introduced to the basic areas of specialization within psychology. While some students begin employment with a Bachelor’s degree, in...